@Indrid-Cold said in Fact check with Pet': Can you prove God's existence? Part I:
@petrapark3r It's often said in parascientific books that there's always a divide between what we perceive and the true nature of the world, whether because of the delay in our senses picking up the data, our inability to perceive certain light and audio spectrums, etc.
Hehe, the parascientists should stop copying Kant then, saying things as if they were grown in their own backyard :yum:
I've been thinking a lot recently about belief.
I suppose I should talk a bit about real belief then. Because the real God couldn't care less about our philosophical discourses (even though I think he might chuckle over our jokes). For the God of the philosophers ain't quite Him and belief ain't quite what we think when we hear the word...
Faith, as it has always been and as you can see especially clearly in the old testament, is not being convinced of certain ideas. Instead it is trust. Trust in the very fact, that this God will act, in your life, today, and tomorrow. The israelites believed in a God who acted in history, even created history, not in some fancy shmancy theology.
You will not recognize this God in one teaching or another. You will recognize Him through His actions in your life. And once you have seen how He acts, you will realize that He has always been there, always working tirelessly to guide you closer to Him, to open doors for you, so you could see Him. You will understand that He is the most tender Father, the one who created you in His Heart, in the place that will one day be Your Heaven, if you dare so as to take His Hand.
And you shall recognize His voice.
And ...in my roundabout way, I've started to equate this with the thinking of Carlos Castaneda. I'd never quote anything from his 'Don Juan' meetings (because, let's face it, they're bunkum), but if you chase down his logic behind these transcendental experiences, he talks mainly about playing with his own expectations, manipulating them to achieve a different reality.
What would it be like to believe in something god-like 100 percent, with no margin for doubt? I'm not convinced we'd get an answer even if we could somehow go inside the mind of the most delusional, straight-jacketed religious schizophrenic. By observing his (OR HER) inner life, a duality would occur, which in turn would require a shared responsibility for this god-like thing, which de facto we'd be unable to get. Yet it is worth thinking about just because...
I'm a big lucid dreamer, me, and a profound thing I've noticed is this: lack of processing power on the part of my mind does not seem to be a consideration. I can come into consciousness in non-reality surrounded by the densest, most sophisticated details. And it's a hell of a thing for a human to be willing to take responsibility for everything. Every weird, quantum-age idea. Like, for instance, a certain amount of consciousness coming from the future, and, the
And when our minds get,
When the, (trips up, head falls in campfire, burns to death like drunken cowboy in Red Dead Redemption)
always making me smile :smile: